Graham Platner Humiliated as Trump's Brutal Warning Comes True

25:19If he does not drop out by then, and they cannot replace him. So what I really think is going on here is they've been looking at some internal numbers, and the numbers have not been looking good for this guy. Collins actually was starting to rise a bit. You damn well know if the numbers were going great, if this guy was winning right now 55-45, there is no way in high health. All they care about is power. There is no way they would all be throwing him under the bus. But it is very clear somehow this allegation, All the other allegations, well, you know, we just love him and forgiveness is important and find your redemption in him and he's wonderful and I love him and, you know, believe all women except those women and da-da-da-da-do.

26:00Now, they have realized that this guy was going to lose. So now Plattner, ironically, has a huge amount of, think of the power that this guy has right now, right? He could just say, you know what? You guys all threw me under the bus here. Screw you. I'm staying in. Let's see what happens and I'll burn the thing down. That would actually be a fun version of all of this. or he, I don't know what, you know, politics is about cutting deals. It's behind, it's about closed doors. What do you get? So he may be sitting with people right now. He may be pulling Schumer and the rest of these AOC and the whole wackadoodle convention of clown car lunatics.

26:33He may be pulling them all of us, all of them aside and going, all right, well, looks, this thing pretty much stinks, but you guys can't force me out. So what am I gonna get if I leave? And I suspect that's what's happening here. And I don't know what that means. I don't know if that means cash. I don't know if that means, I have no idea what that means, but there is no doubt that is what's happening. That's what politics is. But now I want to show you one other thing, because I saw this this morning, and the original woman who was in the New York Times article when they built that entire article, her name was Lindsey Feifold.

27:06I referenced her earlier. And she put this up on Twitter, and I think this gives also a little context to why this did not break further until just now. She wrote, I actually understand why Democrat leaders didn't take our stories seriously when the Times reported them in June, but are taking them seriously now. It was by design. The line most shared from the piece was the claim that the Times could not corroborate my story despite talking to two of my friends. I gave them the contact information for five friends. They called the two who I clarified would not know about the abuse, but would be able to affirm our relationship timeline, timeline events, et cetera.

27:44They simply did not call the other three. I also gave them the names of all of my former roommates who remembered him stalking our row house, which was about five houses down from his, and waiting for me to return. I gave them screenshots of messages between these roommates and I discussing it. I gave them the names of the other men I dated who might've remembered him following us around the hill and showing up on my stoop after we walked home from dates to confront us. I gave them emails to my landlord urgently, ending my lease and moving to an apartment across town, and diary entries talking about it, all time marked.

28:17I told them that during the premarital counseling, I had spoken to my ex-fiancee about the abuse because I had to explain to him why I reacted with such terror anytime he lost his temper. They said, oh, no, we don't need to bother him or my priest. Besides, I had written about it in my diary in detail, they reassured. As the weeks dragged on, I stopped trying to give them evidence because the amount I had already given them seemed to overwhelm them, and I thought it meant they clearly had more than enough to verify my every claim. My friends might not have known the details of the abuse, but they affirmed that, yes, I had told them that he was being abusive long before he ran for Senate.

28:57Besides, they assured my part in their reporting would be small. I thought my details would only serve to affirm Jenny and the other anonymous woman. Jenny and I, having never met or spoken, both shared these reporters terrifyingly similar details of intimate partner violence, coercive control, and cycles of abuse, love bombing. The third unnamed woman in the story did as well, but tell me again how they could not corroborate. That is quite damning by Lindsay right there, who the entire story was built around. So they went out of their way not to contact certain people that she said you should contact.

29:34The thing about having to move across town and having evidence that the landlord knew about it while she was writing about what was going on in her diary. Like there's stuff there, but it was everyone, all the very same people who are now throwing Plattner under the bus, all the Dems, they were all going, well, it said could not corroborate, could not corroborate. So someone at the New York Times, you know what, you want an ending of this story, no one ever pays the price. How about whoever wrote the story? Who wrote the story? The original Feifeld Plattner story in the New York Times a month ago.

30:04That person, and it's probably a couple of people that got the byline, they should all be fired. They should all be fired because they purposely crafted a story rather than told the truth. We'll get their names in just a second, but let's jump ahead here because it's all of these people. You have to understand, all they want is power. They don't have any principles. What's the name? Katie. Katie. Katie Gluck and Lisa Lurer. Katie Gluck and Lisa Lurer or something. They should be fired. Fire them from the New York Times today. Oh, you guys had more. It turns out that Plattner did a whole bunch of other awful stuff.

30:37You guys didn't follow every lead. You decided there were three other roommates you didn't wanna contact and you only contacted the two who actually couldn't fully corroborate everything. Fired, fired, fired. That's not cancel culture. That's basic accountability in the profession known as journalism. Okay, but it's all of these guys. So here's another one of these people. This is Molly Jung-Fast. She's another one of these left-wing activists and Democrat political consultant, Rick Wilson, who I think used to be a Republican and now he's one of these pathetic Democrat ding-dongs. Listen to them talk about Lindsey Feifeld, the original accuser, and then it will be juxtaposed with something more up-to-date.

31:17If you were a Republican strategist or Mitch McConnell, what would you do with the Graham Platt in our situation at this moment? I would use a cutout person who is deeply involved with a whole bunch of right-wing causes, and I would get her to the New York Times. I would try to tell it in a way that did not pay attention to the fact that she works for the Independent Women's Forum and the Heritage Foundation. I know the person that's making the accusations. She is a right-wing activist and operator. It's the kind of person I would have used when I was still doing that kind of work. I'm baffled on the vetting process for this candidate, number one.

31:53I mean, this is just, you know, the fact that there are just constant, you know, allegations, I think really is a sign that there just was not proper vetting here. Okay, so Molly John Pass, she's an MSNBC person or MSNOW person. Rick Wilson, that's the type of person I would have used? Like, what a scumbag. You are everything that's wrong with all of this. You're a political operative who will destroy people in your quest for power. So you're a terrible person, but you just dismissed. Think about what they said there. Well, she worked at Heritage. She worked the heritage. So obviously she can't be telling the truth.

32:30And then you flash forward and then that's Molly Zhang fast yesterday. Why didn't they vet properly? You guys were running cover for him, you ridiculous lunatics. Abby Phillip over on CNN actually made sense on this one. I'm shocked and appalled. And it's been interesting to see some of those people who dragged this woman who was in the, Lindsay Fifthfield, who was in the New York Times story, they called it uncorroborated claims. Another person basically said that she was essentially a plant of the Republican Party. And now those people have changed their tune. But I also think like, is that an apology that needs to be had here?

33:19And some soul searching that needs to be had here. Is it enough to just say, well, this woman, I believe, I didn't believe the last one. And Lindsey Fitfield pointed out to Ruben Gallego, mine weren't sufficiently troubling or serious for you. After that first allegation, it is fair to ask, what's up with people who have to look at the partisan identification next to your name before they decide whether or not they're going to listen to you? Well, I'll be damned. Abby Phillip, that was a complete, cohesive thought and statement from you. You summed up what I've been trying to say here. What is the difference between this new thing and all the rest of it?

34:01What would have been enough for you people? But that's why I'm saying clearly this has something to do with internal polling and or that more horrible stuff is gonna come out about this guy. But you people have shown that you have no principles. I wanna show you just this tweet from this loser. It's another one of these just like lefty online people. but this is what is going on with these types. This guy, Kyle Kalinske, who used to work at the Young Turks, Plattner could have sexted my mom and I'd still vote for him. Now it's a throwaway, I don't really care about this guy, as much as that I think gets to the heart of all of this.

34:38These guys will have no principles on their way to attain power. Nothing, oh, that guy sent a cock shot to my mom. Okay, he's got my vote. Like what? But they literally mean it. And again, the crazy part about Plattner is not that he was some dynamic, extraordinary candidate who gave an incredible speech and had a great track record. He was nothing. He was, is I suppose, as average as anything. And the fact that he now can destroy the entire party in essence, because he could basically say, the hell with you, I'm gonna still run and I'm here, here we go with my insurgency and I'm gonna, and damn the rape victims and screw you, Bernie, and take that Ro Khanna.

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35:55For a limited time, our viewers get 50 % off for life, free shipping, and three free gifts at mengotomars.com. That's mengotomars.com. All right, so we've spent a lot of time on just generic, progressive, double-standard, ding-dong lunacy. Well, at the same time, Trump is trying to do a whole bunch of good things, and this Trump accounts thing that we got a little more info on yesterday, and they basically fully launched it now at the White House. There's some spectacular things coming out of this for the future, particularly if you have kids. Listen to this. Eligibility and contributions. Trump, this is according to Gemini, Trump accounts are tax advantaged investment accounts for US citizens under 18, officially launched in the US government, by the US government.

36:36Children born between 2025 and 2028 are eligible to receive a$1 ,000 seed deposit and accounts allow for up to 5 ,000 in annual contributions. The$1 ,000 benefit. Children born between January 1st, 25 and December 31st, 28, who are US citizens with a valid social security number, are eligible for a$1 ,000 federal seed deposit. Philanthropic additions. In addition to government funds, some accounts are eligible for extra deposits from private charities, such as a 250 gift for children and qualifying zip codes, funded by the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation. Contribution limits. Parents, guardians, and employers can make annual contributions of up to$5 ,000 combined limit.

37:17Think how great that is, right? The world is changing fast. The idea that you're gonna have to have a standard, say, college fund the way you used to maybe 20 years ago to get that four-year degree, and that's gonna get you the job. Like, that world does not exist anymore. And by the way, it probably didn't even exist 20 years ago, and that's why lesbian underwater basket weaving is not gonna get you necessarily the best job, although you'll make a fine barista. Here is Donald Trump pointing out that this gets everybody involved. This is what a true partnership between the government and private enterprise and private citizens is all about.

37:52Millions and millions of dollars into the accounts of poor children, financially poor children. And the parents can't even believe what's happening. So it's an amazing thing. But parents, loved ones, churches, and generous companies and individuals will be able to contribute funds to these accounts to grow throughout the child's life. And again, if we have a good market like we do now, they're going to become actually very rich. They'll have hundreds of thousands of dollars. Think of that. Think of it. A child that has no money can have hundreds of thousands of dollars at a very, very young age.

38:32accounts could grow to be worth numbers that nobody ever thought even possible. Okay, so check out some of these numbers. This is the image from the Trump Accounts website. So at age 55, if you contribute nothing a year, meaning you got seeded the thousand, but you contributed nothing a year, well, as time goes on, that will turn into 243 ,000 by the time you're 55. These children are basically newborns to three years old right now. If you combine two, if you contribute, And again, this can be your mom, it can be your grandparents, it can be your employer. $250 a year. Well, then when you're 55, you will have almost$900 ,000.

39:13And then look at this one. If you contribute$5 ,000 a year, and by the way, it can be partial. So it could be that your parents put in a little bit, your grandparents put a little bit, your employer puts a little bit or whatever it is. But you do that every year,$5 ,000 a year, starting now to when you are 55, you will have$13 million. Now, of course, you have to adjust for inflation, all those things, but this is the government working with private citizens and a foundation, the Michael Bay, Michael Bay, and Optimus Prime is going to college, everybody. The Michael Dell Foundation. Michael, if anyone owes America something, Michael Bay owes us a couple million for those disastrous movies.

39:53But anyway, this is a beautiful thing about what the partnership is all about. Here's Scott Besson with a bit more. Good, so we'll get going, and good morning. I'm grateful to be with you on this historic occasion. The American dream belongs to every child, and today we are equipping the next generation with the right to claim their rightful share of it. Through Trump accounts, our president is creating an ownership economy, an ownership economy where all citizens become shareholders. 38 % of American families do not have any exposure to our great equity markets. But with Trump accounts, over time, we can get that number to zero.

40:34Already 6 million American children have signed up, 86 % of them with families earning less than$200 ,000. So ring the bell, Mr. President.

40:46Yeah, this is just good, guys. This is just good. I just encourage several of the people in the studio to start having kids real quick, because this thing is from kids born 25 to 28, so you got a little bit of a window right here. But then think about that. Let's say you make a decent salary. You don't have to be rolling in dough or anything else, but you make a decent salary. You have a kid born between 25 and 28, and you say, you know what, I make 100 grand, let's say, and I'm gonna make a little more every year going forward. Well,$5 ,000 thrown into that account, and maybe you get your parents to throw in a little bit.

41:165 ,000 is the total, right? So you throw in 4 ,000 and you say to your parents, hey, could you put 1 ,000 in every year for the grandkid, you know, for the next 20 years, whatever it is, and that will really start adding up. Again, by the time they would retire at 55, if you did it the entire way, what was that, 13 million? I think you could make it on 13 mil. All right, let's put a pin in that and talk about something on the cultural side of everything because Christopher Nolan, who's probably, is it fair to say he's the best modern director of all time? If you took the Batman movies, if you took Interstellar, if you took Inception, what else has he done?

41:52He did all the Batman, Inception. Oppenheimer. He did Oppenheimer. I didn't love Oppenheimer. He did Dunkirk, which was great. Yeah, I mean, in terms of maybe not the best living director, if you look at Scorsese and some of those other guys, but like in terms of modern movies, he's just done so many hits, one after the other. As you probably know, he's coming out with The Odyssey. It's coming out in about two weeks, I think on July 18th, if I'm not mistaken. And there's all sorts of stuff. There's a lot of controversy around it, relative to woke and casting and some weird stuff. And I think this is gonna be a big cultural story over the summer, so let's just dive in.

42:24Helen of Troy is the daughter of, oh no, wait, Phoenix, you gotta go, we'll do that after, sorry. So first I wanna show you, here is Helen of Troy in Greek mythology, on the left there, and here is Helen of Troy in Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, and that is, her name is Lapida Nyong 'o. Okay, now, well, that's just fine. So, or just fine or it's not, but you can already see where the controversy is, right? So let me just give you a little bit of background on the mythology behind Helen of Troy. Helen of Troy is the daughter of Zeus, we all know Zeus with the lightning, and Leda. According to the myth, she was taken with the Trojan Prince Paris, an event that sparked the Trojan War, one of the central stories of Greek mythology.

43:07Helen became the enduring symbol of extraordinary beauty, desire, and the devastating consequences that can arise from both. So okay, put up that image again. So look, it's mythology, right? So it's not literal, but if you look at the picture on the left, that would generally be in line with what maybe a beautiful Greek woman of thousands and thousands of years ago out of Greek mythology might look like in there, you have Lupita Nyong 'o. Okay, that's fine. Now go with me here. Here is Lupita Nyong 'o being asked a bit about Homer and her adventure in this thing. I'd be like, so Homer, how do you feel about the screen time given to these women considering how little you spent with them?

43:52Oh, okay. And then do you lean forward and look at him like that? Yes, like, hmm, remember us? Okay, so now I think you get why this is gonna be a big controversy, right? Like, let's put aside for a second the race component of it, right? Like, I'm gonna go out on a limb here we'll have more on this in a second, that the ancient Greek mythology story was not about a black woman. But okay, he decided to cast a black woman. That's one part of it. And we would all like things to be colorblind and whatever, and okay, fine, that's one part. But then she's also not upset that there wasn't enough female representation as she's going on the press tour about all this, that the original story just wasn't focused on women enough.

44:33And it's like, lady, you are making millions of dollars to promote a movie. how about don't undermine the source of the whole thing in the first place? But we've seen this so many times before. They drag everything into their modern political lens and then it turns people against it. It actually ends up so that the box office will not get the receipts that it is supposed to. Here is Lupita Nyong 'o complaining that Homer's Iliad and Odyssey were actually just written from the male perspective. And is there anything worse than that? When you read The Iliad and The Odyssey, very little time is spent in the perspective of the women.

45:14Right. Right? It's told from a very masculine side of things. But this film takes time to really consider things from the female perspective. Who cares? I'm going to go out on a limb. And I used to love Greek mythology when I was a kid. Man, did you guys ever see the original Clash of the Titans with Harry Hamlin? and get me a couple images of the original Clash of the Titans. And they did like claymation for a lot of the characters. And what's her name was in it, Connor, from your, oh no, you're not a Harry, you're a Harry Potter guy? The lady, she was the wizard and she was in Downton Abbey.

45:51Professor McGraffer, flaffer. Anyway, I love Greek mythology. There's so much love about it as a kid. What a great way, you know, it's such a great way, I think, for, look at that. That is the Kraken at the end going and grabbing and then he takes Harry Hamlin's Flying on Pegasus and he takes, get me Medusa's head, get me one more of Medusa's head and he turned the Kraken into stone. It's such a wonderful movie. They did a remake of it about 10 years ago or so that wasn't nearly as good. But, and it's just like peak Hollywood, special effects and all that brilliant stuff. But what a brilliant way, you can go back to me for a second.

46:24What a brilliant way to tell ancient truths, right? What is the point of religion or what is the point of any of these things? It's like, well, the point is you tell stories, whether they're biblical stories or Greek mythology, and if the stories are engaging enough, through an engaging story, you can learn an eternal truth. So there was something about Greek mythology that I always loved, because it was like all these crazy creatures that were probably not real, right? That Medusa was so damn good, yeah. Like, these were things that most people, maybe kids believe it for a little bit, but I think the average person walking around Greece in Athens right now is not thinking that these were all literal things, but the stories told you something true, that Hades was the god of war, and what does that mean, et cetera, et cetera, and Poseidon was the god of water, but okay.

47:11But then they come to our modern times, you do a story, then you're cast in something that is already a little bit curious because she was probably, Helen of Troy was probably not a black woman, and then you're doing a press tour, and woke-ifying the whole thing. Well, we made it a little more womenly, but that's not how it was. Here's a little bit more from Lupita. The most iconic character I played is Helena Troy, and she's known for her beauty. But my big question is, who's the woman behind the beauty? You know, because when that's all you're known for, that must be burdensome. Yeah, that's kind of like, it must be frustrating for her amongst many, many other things.

47:54There's nothing going on than just her beauty, right? Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Maybe, but that would be another story, lady. This story is about Helen of Troy's beauty. You're doing a press tour undermining, again, undermining. It would be like, what would it be? It would be like, it's 1977 and Star Wars comes out and Mark Hamill is like, you know, that force thing sounds kind of ridiculous, doesn't it? It's just so silly. Like, what am I gonna put on a mask and be able to figure out where things are? That's nuts. laser swords? What are you, crazy? Over on The View, here's noted racist Sonny Hostin, upset that some people think that Helen of Troy can't be black.

48:35This idea was also explored in a book called Black Athena. I think people should read it, which argues that classical Greek culture is heavily indebted to Afro-Asiatic and Near Eastern roots. I actually taught Greek mythology to eighth graders. And so I covered this. So people that are saying that Helen of Troy could not possibly be played by a black woman don't know history. Holy sheep shit. That woman taught eighth graders Greek mythology. So she knows what she's talking about. I mean, my Lord, look, I, is it possible that the, again, it's a fictitious story, but is it possible that there were some black people in ancient Greece?

49:19It's just, there isn't real evidence. And actually the book she's talking about, Black Athena, has been completely mocked and debunked by historians for being inaccurate and you can Google that yourself. I don't know of any black people that lived in ancient Greece. I just don't, but okay, lady, Phoenix come with me. It's just nutty. So okay, how can we tie all this together? It's a little, the show has had a certain rhythm to it. We changed it with this odyssey thing here. But we wanted to show you that sunny clip because then she came out with a real doozy. She's very nervous around American flags.

49:54And I said this on this show many, many years ago because this is my 10th year on the show, and I said there are times when I walk into a community and I see American flags all over the community and I suddenly feel unsafe because there is a section of this country that has co-opted the American flag and they equate being an American or an American flag with white supremacy. I love the people who applaud that. I go into a community with an American flag and I feel unsafe and someone's like, yes, yes, you go girl, fierce, you got this. No, you don't. No, you don't. There is no place in America.

50:34Well, I believe that maybe you do. I believe in that because you are, something's wrong with you mentally. I believe that you might walk to any town USA and they'd have a bunch of American flags and they'd have some sparklers and people with Coke bottle glasses with red, white, and blue on them, and you might be freaking out. But that's because you're a brain dead racist yourself. There is no place where there would be a whole bunch of, you know where there's a whole bunch of American flags? Usually at Trump rallies, and those people aren't racist. And just as a throwaway, since we're kind of smacking around Sonny right now, here she is in 2014 when she almost killed her kid.

51:08Because I did write an opinion piece on CNN. I left my daughter when she was 14 months old in the back of our car. And I was with my husband. And it was a hot July day. And literally, Anderson, my husband left her in the car. I left her in the car. We went to get a shopping cart. We took the shopping cart, passed the car, went into Home Depot. I went into the garden center. And it was only after about five minutes that my husband came to me and said, Oh, my God, we left Paloma in the car. And she was fine. And she was fine, but I will tell you, I'm still ashamed about it. I'm embarrassed. I'm horrified.

51:43That's a total throwaway. It's quite gratuitous. I don't really need to comment it other than, you guys want a Paloma for lunch? Maybe we'll make a couple of Palomas around here with a little copal. Copal, a little grapefruit juice, some lime. We'll do it. Okay. But when it comes to this thing around American flags and everything else, the idea that there's this set of people that are triggered by this or upset by this or think that the American flag means anything other than love for the country is so absurd. But look what's going on over in Cali here in San Marcos, an HOA is ordering people to take down their American flags because it's scary to some of these people.

52:14Residents say this debate with the HOA began two years ago. In part of an email explaining the policy in October of 2024, a board member identifies flying an American flag as essentially a political affiliative view. I think that they don't like looking at my American of flag. The Ambience Owners Association wrote, these restrictions are not meant as an inconvenience or an invasion of freedom, but rather as a means of maintaining harmony, continuity, and property value. 35 years that flag has been on that corner. I should not have to argue about my freedoms to display the symbol of freedom in America.

52:55No matter the outcome of the board meeting showdown, Cook says you'll see her flag waving over this 4th of July holiday. All right, look, it's just a stand, it's like a anecdotal story or whatever, and HOAs can do whatever they wanna do. That's the point, you pay in, and then there are rules that you have to abide by. Your lawn has to be this big, you can only put in native plants, there's a series of things. But the idea that this is going on in America, that people are upset that the American flag is being displayed is just rather absurd, and I would say it's a symptom of a condition that is much deeper than that.

53:27So I think what we have to get to is consistent with something that I've been trying to just make a serious point on, because it's the only thing that's gonna save the country, is that yes, there are lunatics, there are socialists, there are communists, there are Nazi rapists, and old socialist windbags who love them. Yes, those people all exist, but then there's the rest of us. And most of us wanna put some of this stuff aside and kinda, you don't even have to love your neighbor, how about you just leave your neighbor alone? Wouldn't that be good enough? So I thought we could throw to this, this is from July 4th.

53:59they had Anderson and what's his name Andy Cohen on CNN and they brought Chappelle Dave Chappelle on and they talked a little bit about what it's like to be an American why you are proud to be an American and how do you view our country today boy that's a loaded question now I see why Trump gets mad at y 'all all the time why would you ask me that I don't agree with everything that our government does. But the one thing that I really consistently believe in that I love about being an American is my countrymen. If I'm overseas or around the world, anytime I see an American over there, we just give each other the fight club look because we live in a madness that only we really understand what it's all about.

54:48And I have faith in my countrymen, no matter how crazy all of this will make it feel, that the sun will rise and that I feel like I'm part of a very incredible community. So God bless my countrymen and let us make this country absolutely great. Isn't that funny at the end there? He almost said, make America great again. And that's the point. That's the point that Dave Chappelle is probably not that different than Donald Trump. If you love people, then you'll love Americans. And we, most of us can set some of the stuff aside and let go of just stop making everything about race or genitals or skin color.

55:26You know, if a rapist with a Nazi tattoo's in your party, say no, no, that's too much. If we could just do those basic things, I really do think everything would be okay. I thoroughly enjoyed today's show. Can we get that AI video one more time? I'm sure we're demonetized anyway. Let's throw to that one more time, because that's a banger. Look at this thing, there he is. Hey, stop that! Get lost! Graham Plattner, ladies and gentlemen. Post game show, 30 seconds, rubinreport.locals.com. See ya.

55:55Thank you.